Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 10 , Pages 876-883 , October 2009

Activation of β-Catenin Signalling Increases StarD7 Gene Expression in JEG-3 Cells

,Accepted 26 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.07.010

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